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Table of Contents & vanishing section breaks
I have a document with:
a front page (section 1), table of contents, currently 2 pages long (section 2), and the rest of the document (section 3) This all works fine until I update the table of contents using 'update entire table'. This results in only 2 section breaks remaining: the front page and the rest of the document, and the page numbering then starts on the table of contents page instead. If I update page numbers only, everything is fine. However I will want to add to the document and therefore will need to 'update entire table' in future. I don't want to have to keep re-inserting the section breaks and messing around with the page numbering. Why is Word removing a section break when I update the entire table, and how can I stop this happening? Many thanks for any help received |
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Table of Contents & vanishing section breaks
It is quite likely that your section break is actually inside the TOC field
and is thus being deleted when the field is updated. Press Alt+F9 to view the TOC field code, and you'll see this clearly. This is why following a TOC is one of the few places we recommend having extra, empty paragraphs. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "DJ" wrote in message ... I have a document with: a front page (section 1), table of contents, currently 2 pages long (section 2), and the rest of the document (section 3) This all works fine until I update the table of contents using 'update entire table'. This results in only 2 section breaks remaining: the front page and the rest of the document, and the page numbering then starts on the table of contents page instead. If I update page numbers only, everything is fine. However I will want to add to the document and therefore will need to 'update entire table' in future. I don't want to have to keep re-inserting the section breaks and messing around with the page numbering. Why is Word removing a section break when I update the entire table, and how can I stop this happening? Many thanks for any help received |
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Table of Contents & vanishing section breaks
Hi Suzanne
Many thanks for your help - I had a look at what you suggested and whilst in the coding view I noticed that the end "}" was instead at the beginning of my first heading, rather than with the rest of the coding for the TOC. Once I'd resolved this, the page numbering is now working as it should. Thank you for your advice, my colleague and I were at the end of our patience with this problem! DJ "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It is quite likely that your section break is actually inside the TOC field and is thus being deleted when the field is updated. Press Alt+F9 to view the TOC field code, and you'll see this clearly. This is why following a TOC is one of the few places we recommend having extra, empty paragraphs. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "DJ" wrote in message ... I have a document with: a front page (section 1), table of contents, currently 2 pages long (section 2), and the rest of the document (section 3) This all works fine until I update the table of contents using 'update entire table'. This results in only 2 section breaks remaining: the front page and the rest of the document, and the page numbering then starts on the table of contents page instead. If I update page numbers only, everything is fine. However I will want to add to the document and therefore will need to 'update entire table' in future. I don't want to have to keep re-inserting the section breaks and messing around with the page numbering. Why is Word removing a section break when I update the entire table, and how can I stop this happening? Many thanks for any help received |
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